[CMake] Building a Version Header
Clark Gaebel
cg.wowus.cg at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 22:50:48 EDT 2010
Couple things wrong with this:
1) I'm using git
2) If it outputs to the build directory, how do I refer to it?
On 07/07/10 22:43, John Drescher wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Clark Gaebel <cg.wowus.cg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would like to generate file that looks something like this:
>>
>> // version.h
>> #define VERSION "v0.1-345-ga77ede8"
>>
>> where the version string is the result of running "git describe --tags
>> --dirty". How can I auto-generate this file, include it in my project,
>> and have it regenerate as a pre-build event?
>>
>>
> You want to do that with configure_file
>
> The following is an example that grabs the subversion rev and puts
> that into a version header file.
>
> In CMakeLists.txt for the LungAnalysis project
>
> set (${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
> set (${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_MINOR 25)
> set (${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_PATCH 3)
>
> FIND_PACKAGE(Subversion)
> IF(Subversion_FOUND)
> #Use the FindSubversion.cmake module to get the svn rev and append
> that to the patch version.
> Subversion_WC_INFO(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} Project)
> MESSAGE("Current revision is ${Project_WC_REVISION}")
> Subversion_WC_LOG(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} Project)
> MESSAGE("Last changed log is ${Project_LAST_CHANGED_LOG}")
>
> set (${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_PATCH
> ${${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_PATCH}.${Project_WC_REVISION})
>
> ENDIF(Subversion_FOUND)
>
> configure_file (
> "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}Config.h.in"
> "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}Config.h"
> )
>
> LungAnalysisConfig.h.in:
> //The configured settings for the project
> #define LungAnalysis_VERSION_MAJOR "@LungAnalysis_VERSION_MAJOR@"
> #define LungAnalysis_VERSION_MINOR "@LungAnalysis_VERSION_MINOR@"
> #define LungAnalysis_VERSION_PATCH "@LungAnalysis_VERSION_PATCH@"
>
>
> So then in the binary folder the LungAnalysisConfig.h will look like
>
> #define LungAnalysis_VERSION_MAJOR "0"
> #define LungAnalysis_VERSION_MINOR "25"
> #define LungAnalysis_VERSION_PATCH "3.903"
>
> for svn revision 903
>
> John
>
--
Regards,
-Clark
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